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Neoechinodiscus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Leotiomycetes
Order:	Helotiales
Genus:	Neoechinodiscus Molinari & R.Sierra (2020)
Type species
Neoechinodiscus lesdainii (Vouaux) R.Sierra & Molinari (2020)
Species
N. kozhevnikovii N. lesdainii
Synonyms
Echinodiscus Etayo & Diederich (2000)

Neoechinodiscus is a genus of two species of lichenicolous fungi with uncertain familial placement in the order Helotiales.

Species:

• Neoechinodiscus kozhevnikovii (Zhurb.) Molinari & R. Sierra (2020)
• Neoechinodiscus lesdainii (Vouaux) R.Sierra & Molinari (2020)

These species used to be classified in Echinodiscus, a genus proposed by Javier Etayo and Paul Diederich in 2000. Diederich subsequently discovered that the fungal use of the genus name was an illegitimate homonym, as it had already been used for a legume genus in 1837, as well as for a diatom genus in 1925. The replacement name Neoechinodiscus was proposed by Rubén Sierra and Eduardo Molinari-Novoa in 2020.

References

1. ^ Etayo, J.; Diederich, P. (2000). "Echinodiscus lesdainii gen. et comb. nov., a new name for Phacopsis lesdainii Vouaux (lichenicolous Ascomycetes, Leotiales)". Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois. 100: 63–66.
2. Diederich, Paul; Lawrey, James D.; Ertz, Damien (2018). "The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa". The Bryologist. 121 (3): 340–425. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-121.3.340. S2CID 92396850.
3. Sierra, Rubén; Molinari-Novoa, Eduardo (2020). "Neoechinodiscus, a new name for Echinodiscus Etayo & Diederich (lichenicolous Helotiales)". Opuscula Philolichenum. 19: 172–173.

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